Dual Battery Simulator

[cr117]

Hey all, I'm back with another dorky tool I threw together this afternoon. This one lets you plug in the specs for all your charging sources and powered devices for your dual battery or portable power station setup to get an idea of how long you'd be able to run things (screenshot below).

https://cr117.github.io/calculators/aux-battery-simulator/

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[RagnarKon]

It would be sweet to add a "duty cycle" to powered devices section.

Camping refrigerators, for example, consume around 40-80 watts of power, but they don't run all the time. According to the chart my battery should last 15 hours, but in real world testing it's closer to 28 hours.

 

[cr117]

It would be sweet to add a "duty cycle" to powered devices section.

Camping refrigerators, for example, consume around 40-80 watts of power, but they don't run all the time. According to the chart my battery should last 15 hours, but in real world testing it's closer to 28 hours.

Yeah, this was originally meant to be a basic estimator to give a ballpark idea, but I kept adding more and more features. Something like that would be cool though, I think I’d need to build some sort of interface where you can define the power consumption profile over the course of 24 hours. I kind of did a similar thing for the solar panel power source type, but that’s just based on average solar efficiency during a sunny day. It’d be neat if you could have finer control over the different generation/consumption rates.

 

[cr117]

@RagnarKon, new feature added just for you:

 

[RagnarKon]

Oh my goodness this is so nerdy I love it.

 

[cr117]

Added a couple of utilization profile presets to make configuring common items a little easier. @RagnarKon, does this produce a fairly accurate representation of you've seen with your power station/fridge setup?

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